They want this dangerous game banned.Īnd they haven’t even played it yet, and probably never will. If you work your way through the replies and retweets to the petition tweet you’ll find plenty of people who should know better chiming in, asking for the game to be cancelled and banned (by the United Nations or Joe Biden, a man who voted to authorize the Iraq War it’s worth noting). Osama Dorias, lead designer on Gotham Knights, pushed a petition calling for the game to be banned. ? Maybe because the narrative is more important than the truth. Maybe because they only read Polygon’s deeply misleading headline. I think people do need to understand the human cost of war.”īut none of this has stopped the vultures from spreading mistruths and outright lies.
I don’t think that’s something that the Iraqi civilians want as a message. He also added that he doesn’t think players are “going to walk away from this experience going, ‘We need more war.’ I don’t think that’s something that the Marines and soldiers want as a message. “For us as a team, it is really about helping players understand the complexity of urban combat.” He told Polygon: “Just as that cannot second-guess the choices by the policymakers, we’re not trying to make a political commentary about whether or not the war itself was a good or a bad idea.”
Six Days In Fallujah lead Peter Tamte was, of course, taken out of context when he said the game wasn’t trying to make an explicitly political statement.
Ismail even jumps onto the “Stop Asian Hate” train in order to cast shade on the game, as though a battle in Iraq that took place nearly two decades ago has anything whatsoever to do with the issue of anti-Asian sentiment in COVID-19 America (another issue I will delve into soon another issue fraught with lies and exaggerations pushed by the media to shape a narrative that does nothing to help actual Asian people who face prejudice over Trump’s blame China for the virus routine). I mean, honestly, how dare a journalist objectively examine an upcoming video game or throw “softball” questions when they should be using their platform to cancel that game and have it banned? The role of the media in 2021 is not to present facts or have dialogue, it’s to create compelling (truth-adjacent?) narratives surrounding a very specific niche worldview and then use social media to bully anyone who disagrees into submission. Clearly he should be banished from polite society. McCaffrey spoke with Peter Tamte and Jaime Griesemer, both former Bungie devs, about the controversy and other aspects of the game.
Ismail’s tweets go directly after IGNs Ryan McCaffrey who had the audacity to speak with the devs in a podcast about the game.
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